Trifoyle

• Canon divergence
• different first meetings
• character studies
• mental illness/PTSD
• injury/disability
• concussions/head trauma treated seriously
• gallows humor
• hurt/comfort (or hurt/no comfort, whump)
• weird west
• horror
• ghosts/undead
• darkfic, fluff, smut, gen, anything in between.
• Characters with very intense hard to define relationships.

• drunk sex
  
• awkward sex
  
• sweet and intimate or rough and aggressive depending on context
  
• anywhere on the spectrum of fully clothed to naked
• experienced/inexperienced (no preference on which character is which)
• dubcon, villain-on-protagonist noncon (will specify what ships I want)
  
• Polyamory, friends with benefits or non-standard relationships
  
• Bed sharing
  
• bathing together
• morning wood/wet dreams
• Omegaverse, especially unconventional or where it's really having fun playing with the concepts. I prefer dual genitalia to ass slick option but it's not important. I like fic that gets into the weird speculative biology/social logistics of it all and also just using heat as a sex pollen sort of scenario. No focus on mpreg please, you can mention it as part of the worldbuilding.
  
• anal, intercrural, frotting, handjobs, dry humping. Any character can top.
• Not as much a fan of rimming but it's not a DNW.

DNW:

• AI generated content
• unrequested genre-change AUs
• explicit under 16 sex
• unrequested trans headcanons or "real-world" gender dysphoria (a/b/o fantasy angst fine)
• scat/watersports
• punishment/discipline kink
• pregnancy
• ejaculating on face
• focus on nipple or spit stuff
• repeated/immersion-breaking consent check-ins esp. between characters it would be out of character for
• feminizing the character who's bottoming (ex. describing them as significantly shorter or more delicate than they are in canon)
• fingore/detailed descriptions of finger or toe injuries (unless it's about a canon injury or how a Lee Van Cleef character lost his fingertip)
• body parts freezing and breaking off
• characters suddenly "getting over" a canon long term disability or character tic

Da uomo a uomo | Death Rides a Horse
Can be watched on youtube. 

For a Few Dollars More



I love their dynamic, the way Manco comes out ready for a fight and Mortimer is always cordial, though he's quite capable of outwitting Manco when he's uncooperative. 

The Good the Bad and the Ugly 

Dubcon is fine for any of these, I love watching these terrible men do psychological warfare on each other. Manipulation! Power plays! Sex so repressed that it's pretending to be torture! Torture so homoerotic that you accidentally get turned on! As for Blondie, I can see him as either deeply repressed and scared of sex and only horny in the most complicated, sublimated ways; or an unabashed and accomplished slut, or anything in between. 

Angel Eyes/Blondie:



This is my main noncon ship. Idk I love the unstoppable force of Angel Eyes' evilness meeting the immovable object of Blondie's deadpan endurance. 

What went on between them while Blondie was traveling towards the gold with Angel Eyes' gang? 

What if Angel Eyes offers his aid to Blondie when he's in a bad situation, on the condition that Blondie offers his own cooperation in return (Blondie is smart enough to be suspicious of what this means, but not in a position to refuse?) 

Blondie/Tuco: 

Ravenous 

Only the rarest of pairs for this one! I saw that someone nominated Hart/Boyd so I had to request it. DNW for this fandom is Boyd giving in to cannibalism long term rather than fighting it like in canon. 

Ives/Toffler: 

Predator/Prey type ship. This one is good for dubcon or noncon. It's so cute how Toffler hovers over him and prays for him while he's "recovering" at Fort Spencer, and Ives helps him with his hymns... they seem to be quite good friends right up until Ives starts trying to eat him! You can really play up the seductive power of evil, Ives' vampiric charisma, the betrayal... 

What if Ives sees eating Toffler as consummating their relationship in a way? (What if he also fucks Toffler while he's eating him?) 

What if he says he's cold while Toffler watches over him at night and of course Toffler cuddles him to warm him up? 

Tumblr ship manifesto

Hart/Boyd: 



The intimacy of asking someone to kill you. Their instant connection, Hart doing his best to help him adjust to the fort, the way Boyd doesn't want to leave him when he's mortally wounded, all the little moments that show they have a bond.

I think Boyd has an authority kink and loves bears and would completely melt when showed tenderness, he's so nervous and exhausted and wound up and he should have some hot gay sex to take his mind off The Horrors for a bit. They go through similar experiences and character arcs regarding cannibalism and their eventual rejection of it too, and both of them have to deal with Ives' "join my cannibal polycule or else" shenanigans. 

Sleeping together "for warmth" (sex)? 

AU where the two of them team up against Ives? 

Boyd's catastrophic daddy issues & the sexually exciting power of authority figure approval? 

Boyd who has been too depressed stressed and tired to jerk off in months suddenly discovers he is extremely horny from the slightest physical touch? 

• Canon divergence
• different first meetings
• character studies
• mental illness/PTSD
• injury/disability
• concussions/head trauma treated seriously
• gallows humor
• hurt/comfort (or hurt/no comfort, whump)
• weird west
• horror
• ghosts/undead
• darkfic, fluff, smut, gen, anything in between.
• Characters with very intense hard to define relationships.

• drunk sex
  
• awkward sex
  
• sweet and intimate or rough and aggressive depending on context
  
• anywhere on the spectrum of fully clothed to naked
  
• dubcon/villain-on-protagonist noncon (will specify what ships I want)
  
• Polyamory, friends with benefits or non-standard relationships
  
• Bed sharing
  
• bathing together
• morning wood/wet dreams
• Omegaverse, especially unconventional or where it's really having fun playing with the concepts. I prefer dual genitalia to ass slick option but it's not important. I like fic that gets into the weird speculative biology/social logistics of it all and also just using heat as a sex pollen sort of scenario. No focus on mpreg please, you can mention it as part of the worldbuilding.
  
• anal, intercrural, frotting, handjobs, dry humping. Any character can top.
• Not as much a fan of rimming but it's not a DNW.

 



Ryan/Bill: 

Look at them. They have such incredible tension. They keep saving each other. There's all the identity porn and angst with Ryan's past and Bill's trauma.

For a Few Dollars More



Manco is like a hissing feral cat that has to be coaxed inside with food, and still spends the first month deciding if it should bite you or not, while Mortimer is just like. this is my new best friend :) I have to squirt him with a water gun to keep him off the table.
I love their dynamic.
Manco is so used to being on his own and having no one but himself to depend on, and thinks he knows everything, and Mortimer calmly shows up, inserts himself into his life, corrects him on stuff he's wrong about, skillfully manipulates him into cooperation when he's uncooperative, and generally drags him kicking and screaming into a partnership he eventually values. I love that arc of Manco going from being irritated by his presence to being dismayed when he leaves.
Who initiates sex? When does it happen? Are they pretty much immediately having a passionate affair despite not fully trusting each other, or is it something that develops along with the rest of their relationship? Do they reunite post-canon, and under what circumstances?
Are there differences in the amount of experience they've had? Manco seems antisocial and possibly repressed, it could be fun to see a more experienced man drive him absolutely crazy. Then again, maybe Mortimer hasn't been with a man before.
Supernatural/weird west AU? Werewolf/vampire (whichever way you want) or other creature stuff? Or, one is an older vampire and one is recently-turned? 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 




Some general likes: fighting for dominance, hatesex, enemies-to-enemies-who-fuck/enemies with benefits, complicated exes with benefits, staking sexual and/or murderous favors in a poker game, repressed omega Blondie, repressed gay Blondie in general, (alternatively: gay sex worker Blondie), unnegotiated BDSM sex that just slots into Blondie and Tuco's existing rivalry, choking, Angel Eyes noncon/dubcon-ing anyone but especially Blondie. Generally Blondie getting dubcon'd. I tend to imagine Blondie as someone who is extremely horny but can't admit to it without 9 degrees of subversion.

Does Matthew’s sexuality differ from Piranesi’s, and would he ever know that? Maybe Piranesi, completely unaware of Society, lacks some internalized homophobia that Matthew never quite got over? Maybe only knowing one handsome evil scientist altered Piranesi’s sexuality in a way that was different from Matthew’s? In Omegaverse AU, has Matthew been hiding his dynamic all his life, while Piranesi just goes “I guess this is normal for me! Cool, anyways, about the statues" 
I'll just put this here--the other omegaverse thought I've had about this fandom is this silly tumblr post about Ketterley being dismayed that his labyrinth experiments keep going into heat because it's happened twice now and it looks like he's doing this on purpose for sex reasons, it's for science I swear!

Thanks for writing for me! I enjoy tricks or treats, I am open for treat fics. Any content rating, single character focused or ship.

General likes: horror AU/retelling, character studies, trauma and mental illness. For trick: ghosts/revenants/undead of any type, characters who can’t die until they’ve finished a task but aren’t properly alive either, came back wrong, curses, any dark supernatural take on canon, villain-on-protagonist noncon/dubcon (I specify where I’d like this and which characters). For fluff and treats: whatever in-character expressions of trust and affection you think work, cuddling, hair petting, sharing a bed or huddling for warmth, hurt/comfort, smut. Basically, if it’s not something I DNW, you’re free to write whatever you think I’d like!

DNW: AUs that dramatically change the setting of canon (this does not apply to spooky remakes in the spirit of this exchange, just stuff like retelling a western movie as a high school drama.) Non-canonical under 18 sex, unrequested trans headcanons or gender-dysphoria-heavy stuff, fic that implies that the Christian God is real in the sense understood by Christians (the devil/hell as folklore are grey areas—sorry, religion is my ex that I have a complicated relationship with), sexy roleplaying, lots of dirty talk, dramatic misunderstandings as a major plot device, body parts freezing solid and breaking off. Fandom specific requests below!

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

GBU Treats: Tuco or Blondie rescuing the other when the other didn’t expect it, Blondie with his kitten, maybe casual intimacy between Tuco and Blondie in a moment when they’re not trying to kill each other. I hesitate to put Angel Eyes in this category at all lol but, why do the trio all know of each other? Why is Angel Eyes so fond of Blondie in particular? Did they have a Thing once?

GBU tricks: someone who evaded death in the movie actually did die and came back wrong somehow, hauntings/curses/dark supernatural stuff in general, war as a supernatural as well as physical evil, how Angel Eyes lost his fingertip, Angel Eyes being evil (maybe discovering how much Tuco and Blondie actually care about each other and using one as leverage against the other,) whump. Supernatural Blondie is a take that I’m always excited to see content for, you can make this as dark as you want. Tumblr user Fredoesque in particular has a post series about Blondie eating Bill Carson’s soul https://fredoesque.tumblr.com/post/720489272186159104/fredoesque-fredoesque-hey-guys-btw-i-think and eventually wrote a fic about it: shallow graves for shallow hearts https://archiveofourown.org/works/48319378

A supernatural version of any of these characters would be cool. Tumblr user meme-streets says Angel Eyes “strikes me as the type not to stay dead and buried” and I love that. https://www.tumblr.com/meme-streets/727393997885145088/gbu-playlists-directors-commentary

I guess this is just becoming my collection of favorite supernatural GBU tumblr posts so here are some more: 

Who died wrong vs lived wrong among the trio https://www.tumblr.com/trifoliate-undergrowth/727769333716090880/ofc-the-real-question-is-whether-those-are-even?source=share

Supernatural Blondie adapting chameleon-like to the stories told about him https://fredoesque.tumblr.com/post/721405638019809280/fredoesque-i-think-it-would-be-fun-if-blondie

Gold is cursed https://fredoesque.tumblr.com/post/724280850138693632/wait-has-anyone-said-this-yet-that-gold-is-so-so

Death Rides a Horse:

Treat: slash! Bill and Ryan bonding! Bill and Ryan trusting each other, despite everything! They have such a fascinating, intense, deeply involved but mostly hands-off relationship in the movie, it would be interesting to see more of that or different ways it could develop. Ryan asks Bill to shoot him! Bill doesn’t! Bill follows him across the desert and breaks him out of jail and then strands him in the desert and is smug about it! Man there’s so much going on with them, I rant about it extensively in previous letters. And Bill is so good! He’s just genuinely a super nice dude when he isn’t consumed with “these people killed my family” panic trauma bloodlust! And Ryan cares about him so much throughout the movie but absolutely refuses to admit it! I just love how obsessed with each other they are and the weird tension of the early part of the movie where they can't figure out why, because Ryan won't explain his reasons for not wanting Bill around yet always showing up to help Bill if needed, and Bill just knows they want the same people dead and he keeps refusing to partner up but also saved his life that one time! 

Trick: Bill and/or Ryan failed to escape death and aren’t quite dead or alive. Maybe Bill did die with his family and came back wrong somehow. Maybe he died or partly died but Ryan, maybe also undead, saved him somehow. Or, Ryan died at some point but can’t rest until he hunts down his betrayers. Did Ryan actually spent 15 years digging himself out of a very secure grave meant to keep him out of Walcott's way indefinitely? Any variation! Is Bill haunted by the ghosts of his family? Is Ryan? Is Walcott some type of vampire or vampire-adjacent supernaturally bad creature that delights in suffering?

Buffalo boots

Either: how long were they lost in the forest together? Did they cuddle for warmth at night? What did they talk about?

Treat: The soldier having a series of horrified realizations when he realizes his new buddy is The Actual King (oh God, I insulted The King’s fashion. Oh God, I taught The King a bawdy drinking song. Oh sweet Jesus I flirted with The King and teased him for not understanding the gay soldier lingo.) What is the King’s perspective on this? Is he going “hmm wow veterans in this country should be better provided for. And also I need to do something about the apparently widespread forest robber gang problem.” What is their relationship like post-canon? Does the King sometimes come out in disguise and just hang out and go drinking with his pal the Soldier? Does he not, but wish he could? Does the Soldier come to the castle?

Trick: expand on the story and make it darker & grittier if you want! Perhaps some sort of evil magic user is responsible for the king being lost and hiding his identity. Perhaps they’ve taken over the kingdom. Is the forest supernaturally creepy and dangerous? Also I interpret the Soldier’s total absence of fear as a trauma response/coping mechanism that manifests as extreme chillness, in modern terms he probably has PTSD. Maybe both of them do! I love getting into the nitty-gritty of fucked up character psychology in any way you like.

Fandom-specific DNW: would prefer no explicit sexual/romantic murderbot ships in this fandom. (canon human relationships fine) and would prefer if you maintained Murderbot's canonical aversion to touch in most situations.

Okay! I feel like this fandom is catnip for hurt/comfort. Murderbot is constantly flinging itself headfirst into danger and has no idea how to respond to its friends being concerned about it, or just, you know, the concept of friends. As of writing this letter I've listened to all the novellas (some several times) but haven't finished Network Effect. I love all the humans but I think Mensah and Gurathin are my favorites. Here are some prompts! 

Murderbot gets injured in a way that the Preservation medical system isn’t sure how to completely fix and has to deal with long-term effects, either permanently or while the Preservation humans figure out a better fix in lieu of going to the wretched The Company™.

Murderbot is stressed trying to deal with an injury and someone expressing Compassionate Human Worry Emotions over it just drives it over the edge and it has an ‘oh my god everyone leave me the fuck alone I can’t deal with this right now’ meltdown because it doesn’t know how to respond to that and doesn’t have the brain space to think about more than one crisis right now. (Humans Are Talking To Me is absolutely a crisis.)

Possibly related to the above: PreservationAux humans trying to figure out how to help a murderbot that just wants to be alone when it’s in distress.

Murderbot is injured in a way that impacts mobility and has to figure out how to cope with that. On top of Murderbot being deeply frustrated by its situation, given how much heavier than a human it is the humans might not be able to physically support it or help it up if it falls down. (See Gurathin prompts: maybe Gurathin is the one practical one who just goes “if I bring you a chair to lean on can you get up by yourself” and Murderbot is like wow someone with brains. I think I might not hate him anymore, actually. I cannot admit that.)

*Murderbot voice* Lying on the floor is a choice I made and I am completely 100% fine yes the shaking is normal.

Murderbot running diagnostics over and over trying to figure out what exactly is wrong and how to fix it.

Murderbot, extremely visibly not at all fine, responding to all concern with “I’m fine” (humans are. Not convinced.)

Possession-adjacent virtual meddling: Murderbot gets hacked or cyber-attacked somehow, recovers but is traumatized.
(Maybe Murderbot is doing something similar to the damaged ship in Fugitive Telemetry, I felt so bad for it—too messed up to coherently explain what’s wrong, or somehow prevented from saying it, signaling for help with scrambled data. Maybe it contacts Gurathin through the feed and he notices pretty quickly that it doesn’t sound right.)

Dr. Mensah trying to explain that she doesn’t actually want to see her idiot sacrificing itself for her and Murderbot grappling with this.

I feel like Gurathin (once he and Murderbot have gotten more used to each other and aren’t hissing and smacking at each other like 2 feral cats) would be good at dealing with Murderbot when it absolutely does not want to be dealt with, I feel like they’re on the same wavelength a lot of the time (maybe why they hate each other so much at first.) Some of it could be from experience if some of Gurathin’s augments are because of his own disability/injury. I feel like he’d be good at providing comfort and support in practical, non-mushy ways that wouldn’t make Murderbot want to crawl out of its skin—the others mean well but Murderbot has no idea how to respond to worry/compassion/people being upset that you’re leaking fluids even though this is your job and happens to you all the time and up until last year nobody cared about it.

Death Rides a Horse

*predictably* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! anyways,

DNW: Bill being raped. (Threats are ok. And this doesn’t apply to Ryan, I generally headcanon him with rape trauma, which you’re welcome to explore if you wish.)

*gestures at the movie* we’ve got a lot to work with here!! Easy canon options: what if Bill actually does get shot by the last of Cavanaugh’s goons before Ryan can kill him and then Ryan has to both get him out of town fast and make sure he doesn’t die? Or, h/c after Bill breaks Ryan out of jail and realizes he was a) tortured b) thrown out of a moving cart c) almost hanged because he was d) blamed for Walcott’s crime AGAIN. Or, canon divergence where circumstances force the two to team up pre-finale, or they’re working together post-canon, etc. I just love them.

Hurt Bill:

Ryan spends the first part of the movie trying to maintain some distance between them but always drops what he’s doing to help Bill when he needs it. So I’d like to see a more extreme version of that, where Bill is seriously injured and Ryan entirely lets down his guard to take care of him. How does this change their relationship?

Ryan surprised and touched that Bill trusts him. Maybe Ryan lets slip how much he cares about him, or vice versa.

Hurt Ryan:

Ryan needs help with an injury but isn’t used to being helped.

Bill noticing that Ryan flinches at unexpected touches.

Ryan: a coping mechanism that isn’t alcohol, revenge, justified paranoia or having silent private panic attacks all night? Sounds fake.

Post-canon, Ryan and Bill meet again and Ryan admits he doesn’t know what to do with himself now and wishes Bill would just kill him. Bill does not do that.  

Both or either:

I think they both need to recognize how self-destructive they are. Bill never comes up with a plan more survivable than “walk into the bad guy bar through the front door and start throwing punches” and has to keep getting rescued by Ryan, who of course is on his own revenge/extortion mission… Ryan is more careful about it but I do feel like he probably wouldn’t be quite so bold if he wasn’t at least a tiny bit suicidal. And then of course there’s the whole “offering Bill a bullet to shoot him with” at the end so double points for that!

Red Dead Redemption: 

Fandom-specific likes (optional): high-honor Arthur, Hosea/Arthur or Hosea & Arthur, past or complicated Hosea/Dutch, Arthur getting whumped to hell and being helpless in specific situations but also being a BAMF generally.

Hurt Arthur: oh boy there are so many ways to hurt Arthur! Canon (also an option) aside, here are some: drags himself back to camp after being injured and horse-less in the wilderness, gets shot at more accurately than usual, gets beat up and/or raped (there’s the canon Sonny NPC interaction but you could also go with another NPC or an OC), seeks approval from Dutch when he’s in one of his Moods™ and instead gets an unhinged rant about how he’s going to betray them all and Dutch can see it in his eyes… legendary fish got away..

I like his dynamic with Hosea, whether it’s platonic or romantic, but I do particularly like to see them shipped, there’s not too much of that in the tag!

Rev. Swanson: I love the mission where you rescue Swanson, primarily from himself but also from two separate groups of people and then a train. I love that he’s got a whole gang of outlaws to take care of him while he struggles with his addiction. He’s such a sad wet pitiful scrap of man, I think it would be good for him to feel useful sometimes. I think in a moment of lucidity he could sense emotional distress from Arthur and go into his old religious minister Counseling Mode and actually provide some needed support, to the surprise of everyone involved. I think this would be good for both of them.

I really like nonconing Arthur. It's even canon, it's just another way his confusing life sucks, and I don't know if he'd, like. Have any idea how to talk about it. Would he want to? I've thought about this rather extensively so below is just the Arthur Noncon Prompt Fest feel free to skip if you don't like that: 

This feels like it fits to me. RDR2 is full of characters who might be nice or might try to shoot you, and Arthur is constantly getting ambushed and entrapped and antagonized by random strangers. High-honor Arthur is a testament to the man’s patience and resilience, that he can keep seeing the best in people and offering to help when needed, in a very wild, paranoia-inducing world. It would be interesting to see something disrupt that. I don’t want him completely broken, and anyways I think he’d have to be pretty resilient to the evils of the world to have gotten as far as he has in his line of work already, but I think it would throw him into a tailspin. And what is RDR2 for if not making the poor man suffer.

You could go any direction with this, with any kind of setup. The map is full of bloodthirsty enemies, larger and smaller gangs and solo creeps. He could either be jumped and physically overpowered with a different outcome than the you died screen I saw so goddamn much of while playing or tricked by a person feigning friendliness. If you want to go with a specific named NPC other than Sonny, Tommy seems like a decent option to me, given he’s able to physically overpower Arthur and of all things calls him a pretty boy during their fight, to Arthur’s confusion.

Since this is Arthur Morgan, bonus points for him tracking down and killing the rapist afterwards. Unless it’s Tommy, I think he’s exempt since Arthur canonically gives him brain damage (could be an interesting spin on Arthur trying to kill him in that cutscene if this happens before his canon appearance.) 

The fallout here would be interesting also. Does he talk about it at all, or not? Do the other gang members notice that he’s gotten depressed and paranoid, or question why he’s suddenly obsessed with an out-of-character revenge quest?

Bonus points for background consensual Hosea/Arthur, or for extra angst Arthur has an unrequited crush—or Hosea does like him but doesn't want to initiate a relationship for whatever reason. Maybe something makes him reevaluate this. Maybe he's upset he couldn't protect Arthur.

some noncon prompts: 

Arthur is generally against unnecessary murder but suddenly with zero context asks a friend to come on an assassination mission with him. The friend is concerned.

Arthur has been bicurious for a while and is just mad that his first time with a man was this.

Arthur’s attempt to rescue another gang member who’s been kidnapped goes very wrong and they’re both raped or Arthur is raped instead before they can get away. (I do feel like he has a very sweet bond with the girls at camp, and I mean… being raped alongside someone sure would uh. Give you some kind of bond. Besties! Not Sadie though, I just—she’s had enough bad experiences already I don’t want to see that. And not Jack, at least not if the attempted rape is successful. Anyone else.)

Hostage situation with a rival gang goes south, culminates in Arthur being raped in front of someone from Dutch’s gang to humiliate or punish him.

Previously high honor Arthur has a low honor phase after the experience. Others in the gang are concerned about the sudden shift. (see his “ain’t nobody innocent in this world” line. Just… completely jaded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTFIBbP1kTM )

Free space: go wild! There are some supernatural elements to RDR2, ghost and alien easter eggs—I don’t particularly like aliens, but if you want Arthur to be menaced by some kind of werewolf or other ~creature~, go for it. I’m also very fond of ghosts or other undead (RDR1 has the undead DLC and RDR2 has the Saint Denis vampire). General likes here: attacked by some kind of evil fucked up animal while hunting, non human dick, sex pollen/pheromones, nonconned by feral/supernaturally in heat creature, weird ghost sex.

Crossover! 

My beautiful baby the Death Rides a Horse/Red Dead Redemption crossover I invented. Someone actually wrote me a fic for it in my last exchange (A Quiet Night in Valentine) and it was glorious! I mostly think Ryan and Hosea should meet and have a mutual gay old man thing going on, maybe some tension with Ryan being a reformed outlaw and Hosea happily resigned to never reforming, but I just think they'd click, I think they'd understand each other and just be great together. I've got a whole paragraph about this in my last letter if you want more information, also the gift I got was very good.

There are plenty of scenarios where either of them could end up hurt or needing to be rescued, it could be a fun sort of outlaw meet cute or reunion if they'd known each other before. Maybe one of them gets stranded, or kidnapped, or one comes upon the other being attacked and helps out, or both team up to escape a bad situation. I like them together.

Hello!! Thank you for participating, I look forward to seeing what you come up with! Choose whichever fandom, I’ll be excited about new content for any of these. Here are some suggestions! I ramble a bit with headcanons, my purpose is to give you ideas to branch off from if you’re looking for some, not to constrain you to writing This Exact Thing™, and prompts are definitely optional--if you have a different take than mine on something I'd love to see it! 
Go forth, do what you want, have fun, I trust your artistic instinct :) 

My AO3 username is Trefoil_9, active under pseud Trifoliate-Undergrowth. Gifts are enabled as per the update/I would gladly accept treats of any kind! 

Table of contents:

• General likes/DNW
• Fandom prompts (~shortest to longest):
• What is it?
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• For a Few Dollars More
• Death Rides a Horse

General likes/DNW:

OK, there are two, separate portions of this.

Learn to Read Book

For “What is it?”: No violent or sexual content please, no more than a PG rating. However I would be fine with it being a little (not overwhelmingly) dark just as part of the surreal nature of the world, if that’s something you want to play up—I feel like it’s a very dreamlike book, and dreams are often bizarre. 

Do want: worldbuilding, and/or friendship between the kids, you could do a retelling that isn’t in learn-to-read sentences. Play up the wild, 1978, illustrated by Kinuko Craft fantasy/soft sci-fi energy as much as you want. 

Cowboy Movies

In contrast, for all of the spaghetti westerns I will quote the sadly outdated Tumblr guidelines: Go nuts. Show nuts. Whatever. Canon is already R-rated I’ll take any fic rating!  

More specifically, I am fine with or without explicit sex, generally fine with dark content. Can enjoy villain-on-protagonist noncon/dubcon (qualifying villains for these prompts are Angel Eyes and Walcott.) I don’t usually seek out kink but I’m not against including some, if you feel like it fits, so I’ll leave that up to your judgement (a lot of these movies are very bondage-y for example, I’ve seen some fun Blondie/Tuco fics lean into that).

General likes: whump, hurt/comfort, humor, character or relationship studies especially ones that really explore how fucked up these characters are (is there a person nominated in these fandoms without PTSD?), slash, gen, found family. Post- or pre-canon, canon divergence or missing scenes. Ghosts, undead creatures, horror. Religious trauma/angst, non-religious characters. Non-sexual intimacy/casual physical closeness. Hair petting, bed sharing, cuddling for warmth, illustrations of trust or loyalty, trauma bonding. 

Sexy likes: Idiots In Love/mutual pining, unresolved and resolved sexual tension. Awkward but enjoyable sex, body worship, clothed or partially clothed sex, fighting becomes sex, glad-to-be-alive sex, drunk sex, tender sex. 

“ehhh” *vague hand wiggle* stuff (or stuff that I don’t seek out but do enjoy sometimes when I stumble across a good story so it’s not a hard DNW): A/B/O, weird west/fantasy/supernatural AU, holiday-themed fic.
...I'll try to make this less vague.. I don't want a Christmas Fic where that's the main draw, unless it's sort of deconstructed? For example a character hates christmas and the fic isn't about making them love christmas, something like that. Mixed feelings on A/B/O and it's kind of a case by case basis on whether I'll like it, I do kind of like the potential for.. funky gender stuff, tension of omegas trying to keep that personal detail a secret for their safety, the sex pollen-y aspect, though I prefer characters to stay in control during heat. A/B/O is my preferred type of gender fuckery for fandom I think, because it usually hits too close to home to read about regular human trans characters, but A/B/O omegas are just a variant of fantasy male! You know? Escapism. Weird west AUs I am pretty open to I guess, but I don't have specific ideas on what I'd like to see... plagues? undead? alternate history? I'll throw daemon AUs in here.
Long story short, if you have a compelling idea for one of these then go for it. 

Hard DNW: scat/watersports,  AUs that significantly change the setting/wildly off-topic stuff (use your judgement). Also unrequested transgender headcanons (am trans, don't want to read about it in my cowboy escapism.) 

Facts about me that could potentially be relevant: had a bad breakup with Christianity and now non-religious (I accept that religion can be a positive thing for other people, it was not for me), a bit obsessed with death and also Lee Van Cleef characters, I really like cats. So if you ever think “Is this morbid” or “is this too anti-religious” or “does this story about gunslingers really need to have a cat in it?” it is in fact probably an indication that I would love it and you don’t need to worry. 

Lee Van Cleef character trivia: he's missing the tip of his right middle finger in all the movies listed here, though it's most noticeable in the shots where he reaches for his gun in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Doylist reason for this is that the real human actor injured himself while trying to build a playhouse for his daughter; I'd be interested in the Watsonian reasons for specific characters played by Lee Van Cleef missing a fingertip within the context of their stories, if you have ideas, or it just being a present detail if relevant. 

Individual requests/prompts:

What Is It?

(*piano man voice* MAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? The combination of 1 child’s book and a bunch of violent cowboy movies is just so funny to me)

My promo post explaining What It Is (lol): https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/281559.html?thread=3989975#cmt3989975

I didn't nominate any characters for this--I don't think any besides "mother" are named, it's a very short book anyway... You could focus on the two main characters, or not. I'm most interested in worldbuilding. 

What I like most about canon: the beauty and mystery of the art, the questions it raises, the sense of childlike awe and curiosity at everything, how big and magical the world seems. What on EARTH is going on in this book? On one hand I almost don’t want more explanations, at least not ones that completely take the mysteries away, because the strange dreamlike quality is part of why I like it. But also I do.

I don't really have specific prompts but in general I have a lot of questions. What does it smell like there? Where did the slide come from—was the island built with it originally, did the children add it so it’d be more fun, or did the cat create it? I mean, for all I know about the cat it could very well be a magical-slide-creating cat. All my information is that it looks amazing and is friendly towards the children. Have they met the cat before or is this their first encounter with it? What are their names? What’s their mother like? Is the place they slide down to the mainland or is it another floating island or what?? How many moons are there? What are the stairs inside the lion statue for? Are those birds on the slide bannister tame? There’s just so much going on here that you could potentially explore, go with whatever you find interesting.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

What I most like about canon: the dark humor, the generally apocalyptic vibe from the war, these three specific assholes being so focused on their own schemes that an ongoing war destroying everything around them only registers as a mild inconvenience, Blondie being The Way That He Is, the… indescribable (but I will rant about it) relationship between Blondie and Tuco… Blondie’s damn outfits, his silence. THE KITTEN SCENE. Tuco’s spotlight-stealing resilience and ability to crack jokes in the face of death, the scene with his brother. The scene where Blondie and Tuco team up to take on Angel Eyes’ men is my favorite in the movie, it’s incredible to see them working together. 

I’d like to see Blondie/Tuco, or Blondie&Tuco! Though any combination of the main three can be very fun! (I requested the whole trio but you don't have to write all three.)  Angel Eyes/Blondie (reciprocated or not) is also fun bc there’s a lot to work with in canon. “golden-haired angel”... The blatant favoritism in making up some excuse for why he’ll torture Tuco but not Blondie… 

I like fic that explores Blondie and Tuco’s weird, intense dynamic from the movie. They hate each other, they’re obsessed with each other, they can’t get away from each other, they try to kill each other, they save each other, they’re deeply entwined in each other’s lives, there’s so much emotion and so many complicated layers to it. The unexpectedly tender cigar scene after Tuco has the fight with his brother? Tuco being willing to fight all of Angel Eyes’ men singlehandedly for Blondie (well, for the gold, I guess. But also for Blondie!) But lest we forget they have also both genuinely tried to murder each other! This is also very interesting if you add a sexual aspect to the relationship, explore how on earth that would work. I think my favorite slash fics for them have been ones where I can recognize their dynamic from the movie and it gets sexy in a funky fucked up way that I feel is in character for them. Do they actually trust each other on some level? In what way? Convenientalias described it like a “disloyalty kink” or knowing that either of you would betray the other and both being into that?? I am putting them in a jar and shaking it so hard what the fuck is going on with them and why does it compel me so much. I would expect myself to hate this but I can’t look away. It’s a beautiful train wreck. I want to believe that on some level they genuinely care about each other but do I? What does that look like for them?

Also: how do they know Angel Eyes?? It’s just a casual fact in the movie that they all three know each other and that’s wild to me! Angel Eyes obviously understands what’s going on with the hanging scam, and they all recognize each other in the prison camp. How? Why? Also, is Angel Eyes jealous of Blondie’s new partner? Is that why he more or less forces Tuco out of the picture and then takes his place? Angel Eyes arguably failed because he let Blondie live and keep his secret (and didn't kill Tuco immediately but tried to cash in on the bounty a final time), which is interesting because aside from this he's completely ruthless, a completely professional killer. Sergio Leone described him as almost robotic in one quote. It would be interesting to see his refusal to hurt Blondie (this is from a guy who shoots children and tortures women when it would benefit him) as his fatal flaw (...for lack of a better description for a villain acting slightly out of character for how evil he usually is?) 

I mentioned Angel Eyes noncon/dubcon. If you do go this route, the dynamic I'm most interested in is more subtle dubcon-y manipulation than overtly violent, as I feel Angel Eyes tends to use only as much force as is necessary, and Blondie is  smart and has good survival skills. If anything's going down in the prison camp, for example, he knows very well that Angel Eyes is the one in power there and is motivated to get on his good side. I also think this could be an interesting character study of Blondie, if you go with the interpretation that he's very allergic to his own emotions it could be interesting to see him in a situation where he tries to simply shut off his negative feelings and can't, and has to suddenly figure out how to handle that when literally the only thing he knows how to do is repress forever. 

I'm also curious about identity stuff with Blondie. Also Manco--I tend to consider each movie's version of the Man With No Name as a separate character unconnected to the others but I do like the idea that each one is nameless. Why? How do they feel about their original names--do they think of those names as being their true names anymore, or are they more used to nicknames? Have they cast aside the old names and identify more with new ones now? Do they consider themselves nameless? I feel like Blondie particularly has some interesting identity stuff going on. I'm never sure what's going on with him or what he wants, and I wonder if he knows either. Or does he just keep his cards close to his chest? 

DNW: don’t woobify Blondie too much, it's interesting that he's such a morally grey asshole in the movie, but with unexpected, contrasting moments of softness. Also, don't put the focus on revealing what his legal name is. These are basically also my DNWs for Manco (see below.) 

For a Few Dollars More

What I like most about canon: rivals to friends!! The contrast between Manco and Mortimer! Seeing two jaded loners work together and develop a genuine friendship in spite of themselves! Manco and Mortimer’s relationship is so interesting, they’re both so extremely competent but in different ways, and they respect each other, and they’re such a force to be reckoned with when they team up. My friend convenientalias commented that Manco has a playful energy to him even when he’s working (playing cards with his bounty, smirking at Mortimer’s window before trying to run him out of town) whereas Mortimer is coldly efficient and businesslike. And then there’s Manco’s tendency to start throwing punches, and Mortimer’s to calmly snipe from a distance. Mortimer doesn’t even seem to have a quick-draw weapon (Manco’s specialty) until he produces a derringer from a sleeve in his duel with Wild. Their ways of researching each other are hilariously different too (Mortimer: to the archives! Manco: to the dilapidated house of an insane old man who hates trains!!)

 Also, Mortimer! The only reason Mortimer isn’t my very favorite Lee Van Cleef character is because I got even more obsessed with Ryan, but Mortimer is very close behind. There's such a compelling range of emotion you see throughout the movie--coldly efficient murder, guarded affability, shock, grief, desperation. There's something almost delicate about him, Lee Van Cleef is not a small man but the way Mortimer keeps getting manhandled and tossed around by men bigger than him (Niño at one point picks him up by the back of the jacket like he's a kitten) gives the impression that his character is comparatively lightweight, which works with his preference for sniping, trickery and out-foxing his enemies from a distance. I love his whole look, his perfect poise, I love how maniacally driven he is, I love how he sometimes even outpaces Manco in pissing people off. He can be reckless too when it's about his revenge quest--he plans everything and makes it work out, and he always seems to keep his composure, but that doesn't mean that antagonizing Wild was necessarily the smartest way to figure out they were casing the bank. You could say he just looks less reckless compared to resident force of chaos Manco. Also I love any type of death obsession as a character trait lol. 

Manco, sort of like Blondie, I like to see characterized with all the sharp edges he has in the movie. He’s an asshole! Similar in that also to Blondie, but with Manco it’s more direct and honest—where I consider Blondie is sort of impassively cruel and mercurial, Manco will just barge directly towards whatever his goal is at the moment and if you’re in his way well too bad you’re gonna get trampled. His uncomplicatedness is endearing to me. He’s the worst person to send undercover! He’s incapable of lying! He’d much rather just fight the whole gang at once than have to come up with a cover story! I also have similar feelings/prompts/questions about Manco's name or lack thereof to what I discussed with Blondie above. Is Manco what he considers to be his real name even if it wasn't his original name? Did he pick it himself or was it applied to him? Does he care about names at all/does he conceptualize himself as having a name? 

I just requested Manco and Mortimer for this. I love seeing the two of them interacting, as rivals and tense allies and rivals again and then truly friends. (Maybe more?) You can go anywhere with their relationship—friends and partners, found family—but I do quite like slash. I just want to see more of them! (or, you could focus on one individually.) 

I like the fact that at one point in production Mortimer was going to be reading a book of Byron’s poems in the train scene rather than the Bible, which I feel fits his character better (…or maybe I just hate the Bible). Does he like Byron? Does he actually have a small book of poems as well? You could have an AU where he has that either instead of or as well as the Bible. I just think it’s fun. Also, what does Manco think of taking up storage space and adding weight to your horse with dang books when you travel? 

Also, Manco being more Western and wild, and Mortimer being more Eastern and settled--those differences, misconceptions and prejudices and such. Though I think the base of their relationship is always that they take each other very seriously. 

Death Rides a Horse

I made a promo post about this one too, here it is! https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/281559.html?thread=3793879#cmt3793879

What I like most about canon:  the intensity of anger both men feel and how the mutual revenge quest both brings them together and ultimately comes between them (but without the narrative making it some heavy-handed Lesson.  That’s something I like about this movie, it’s unapologetically a revenge film and not a “is revenge morally ok? Idk it’s complicated” film like no these people deserve to die and our heroes are going to kill them. We recognize you came here to see shooting and by god we are going to shoot some guys. The interesting part is at the end, when it’s down to just Bill and Ryan, you get to see how Bill will respond to that—at what point he’s ready to be done with revenge and live his life, whether he’s able to accept Ryan. HOW RYAN REACTS… Ryan not loading his gun and giving Bill an opportunity to shoot him but only in the back, which would be uncharacteristically dishonorable for Bill, and of course he doesn’t do it… God, this is the "revenge film is also commenting on the concept of revenge" that I actually respect, because it's baked into the story.) The enduring constant throughout the movie of Ryan wanting to protect Bill to the point where he’s willing to let Bill kill him. The scene where the rest of the town is at church and the two of them just stare at each other across the deserted main street; Ryan’s “Actually, I don’t think I’m in that close of a relationship with our good Lord.” Bill and Ryan in general! All of their interactions make me insane! The almost bored way Ryan holds him at gunpoint, the way even Bill doesn’t seem scared after the first time, having correctly deduced that Ryan won’t hurt him. The sort of playful bickering, the way Ryan at first attempts to hold him at a distance but will always step in to help him if needed, Bill’s implacable pursuit.

I like Bill/Ryan or Bill & Ryan, anything which really gets into their relationship! Give me content with these two!! I want them to hug, they both have so much trauma, I want them to just hold each other! I want them to tend each other’s wounds! I want Bill to just fucking attack Ryan like the revenge addled traumatized wreck he is! I want angst and fluff and secrets and honesty, I don’t know, there’s so much going on with them, oh my God! Anything you feel like writing about the two of them. Alternatively, you could write something focused on one of them and leave out the other, because I am also obsessed with them individually! Character studies—I guarantee you both of these characters have PTSD and the ways they are most competent are just several fucked up coping mechanisms in a trench coat.

DNWs: don’t noncon Bill. (Open season on Ryan though! Whump him however you like!) If writing slash, only ship them after the timeskip. And, don’t write Ryan throwing away the skull necklace at least without getting into what that means for him after keeping it for over fifteen years and why it was important to him in the first place. 

OK prompts! I have so many prompt ideas for this I’m going to section them by character/s. (you do not have to read all of this let alone write for any of it but this poured out of me in a flood of obsession so I might as well post it in case it does interest you) 

*deep breath* OKAY! SO: 

Ryan

Ryan’s skull necklace. He kept it for 15 years while he was in jail and who knows how long he had it before that, it’s obviously important to him, and I feel like it ties into his views on death in particular and his weird moral code in general, which I’d love to see explored more. What is going on with that? Also, could Bill get used to the necklace, even eventually have more positive than negative associations for it (considering Ryan has saved his life multiple times at this point, once while prominently wearing it)? How long would that take/what would be a workaround in the meantime? Is it the necklace itself that triggers him or was his reaction in the finale more general shock from realizing he'd been working with one of the men from that night without realizing it? 

Related: what are Ryan’s views on death? Why associate himself with a skull when I think it’s pretty clear he isn’t cruel, and doesn’t enjoy killing for the sake of killing? He gunned down his ex-gang mates without apparent remorse and was very good at it, but also he went into a burning building to save a child he knew nothing about. And he’s very casual about his own death—the “alright. I’ve been waiting for that” about how Bill is likely going to kill him, the way he’s so calm during their one-sided duel and was prepared to just let Bill shoot him. Does he find peace in accepting death as inevitable but impartial? Does he identify with that when he kills people? 

What is Ryan’s moral code in general? Does it change over time, or remain mostly the same? If the second, was there a specific moment in pre-canon where he switched from “oh boy I love stealing from the undeserving rich with my good friends, who surely share my views on morality!” to “Oh God. Oh no. I’m working with a bunch of monsters. I think I need to find a different job” ? And at what point would that happen? Was it the Meceita ranch or was it building even before that? (I actually have a short series about this on AO3 but that's only one possible interpretation). 

Related:  did Ryan’s gang mates double-cross him specifically because he voiced disapproval about what they did at the Meceita ranch and they decided he was no fun/couldn’t be trusted anymore? What other factors were at play? Were they, or were some of them, good friends with Ryan before they betrayed him, or did they always kind of resent him but need him for their plans at first? Did they clash over ideals even before the final falling-out? Was there tension in the gang over the decision to betray Ryan? Whose idea was it? Did some members support it more than others? If you want to get deep into pre-canon I’d be fine with a Ryan-focused fic with no Bill in it (or vice versa). What was Ryan’s function in the gang, how did he get along with the others?

Related both to the above and to the whole death thing (I’m incapable of being normal about this subject)... How was Ryan viewed by other gang members? Did they get along badly, or was he appreciated as being one of the least likely to stab you in the back? I imagine him being in an interesting place because he tries to avoid killing, but is also terrifyingly effective when he does decide to kill someone (as we’ve seen), and maybe ending up in the weird position of being the best killer on the team but also the least likely to actually kill someone unless he's given a compelling enough reason. Do newer people underestimate him, and maybe people who’ve known him for longer are a little intimidated by him? I think part of Ryan’s whole Thing about death (very calm about his death, others’ death, just in general… eerily calm about the subject) would also make him the best person to deal with an injured gang member, because he can keep calm and either mercy kill someone or (arguably harder) sit with them while they die. Is this, ironically, alarming to people who are way more blasé about killing strangers but can’t handle it with friends?

MORE Ryan whump! There is a lot to work with in canon already but I want more! Whump this man! How does he handle being weak? 

Bill

What is Bill’s morality like? I feel it might be reductively black-and-white (he needs to see himself as righteous and completely unlike the murderers who killed his family), and as he tries to work out whether or not he should have killed Ryan and why not, he’s starting to see the limitations of it.

Bill being socially awkward. Also see:

One of several things I don’t like about this movie is John Philip Law’s (Bill’s actor’s) acting, which gives me ‘trying too hard’ vibes, but it does provide me with some fun headcanons (though I’m likely not interpreting the performance as intended). Consider, Bill doesn’t doubt his own skills but he does know that he’s young and unknown and people just meeting him for the first time might not be inclined to take him seriously, and that bothers him. So he intentionally speaks in a deep voice and sort of stands in a way that takes up room. Like a small cat puffing itself up to look bigger, bc he wants to be tough. Does he loosen up a little around people he’s more comfortable with? What does that look like? Or, maybe he doesn't--is this just how Bill is? (also see: autistic Bill headcanon. He looks like he’s acting bc he is… bc social interactions are Hard and he’s Trying His Best. This is also a fun take)

What's Bill's life like between what's shown in the movie? He's friendly with the sheriff at least (who is trying his darndest to set him up with some young lady named Betsy, to which Bill has absolutely zero reaction; this is hilarious to me. Does he even know what the guy's talking about? Is the sheriff one of those people who starts planning the wedding if you make heterosexual eye contact with someone in your age bracket one time at a church social?) He's living on his family's land still, what's he doing out there? How far is he from town? Hopefully far enough that everyone isn't listening to his obsessive target practice... But that is a rather isolating distance. In which case did he move back there recently? I doubt the sheriff just left an actual child out there alone to fend for himself at least for the first 10 or so years. 

I imagine Bill is the kind of guy who'd go to a dance or a party because he was invited and feels like he Should, and then just stand awkwardly in a corner and either go hang out with the old people and play checkers or just get overwhelmed and go home early. 

What I personally find most fun about Bill is how anti-fun his whole vibe is! He doesn’t smoke he doesn’t drink he KILLS. (there is a scene where he drinks actually but this joke was funny and I don’t feel like deleting it) He looks like he hasn’t unclenched his jaw since he was 5—he is, canonically, near constantly gnawing on a toothpick (even fell asleep with one in his mouth!) so you know he’s gritting his teeth. He has no patience for subtleties he’ll just walk into the bad guy saloon, where the bad guys and all of their friends hang out, and start throwing punches. He shoots Cavanaugh in front of like 30 witnesses!!! Not to mention he shoots the guy right in front of his own guards who then predictably immediately try to kill him! Very little planning just raw rage but it works because he’s spent every minute of the last 15 years fixated on making himself an unstoppable killing machine and damned if it didn’t work! (Also he’s got Ryan watching his back :) However he never thought to add brakes on the murder machine so there’s no “maybe I should wait and plan a better way to confront this guy” or “do I really want to duel my ally who has saved my life at least 3 times at this point? Let me think that over” it’s all full throttle straight ahead MURDER TIME! Until the finale, where he finally figures out how to stop. Amazing. 

Both

Hurt/comfort, possibly with Bill realizing how badly hurt Ryan is after breaking him out of jail, or if one of them is hurt in an outside-of-canon scenario.

Either Ryan or Bill being protective of the other, or both :)

I’d like to see some missing scene type stuff where they team up together at some point before the finale—after they’ve gotten to trust each other a little bit but are still mostly in the one-upping each other phase, and before Bill knows who Ryan is. I think it’s so interesting to watch their relationship develop at this stage. I want to see more of it—more of them cooperating rather than stealing each other’s horses, and getting to know each other better. Also, to what extent does Ryan realize that Bill doesn’t know who he is and is still hunting the man with the skull necklace, not realizing it’s his new friend? How does he feel about Bill starting to get attached to him while thinking he’s a different person? ~Time for identity porn!~

Generally, what are their feelings about each other?? Before, and/or after the reveal. What’s Ryan thinking in the first couple scenes where he meets Bill again after the timeskip? What are all his reasons for refusing to let Bill travel with him? And what’s Bill’s impression of him? (perhaps: this is my new favorite person, whom I would defend with my life and definitely never want to kill :)  After, does Bill feel betrayed? Does he feel like he lost someone (his idea of Ryan as an uncomplicatedly good person, or as someone more like him, avenging a family member?) How does he reconcile it all? I want to believe that after the initial shock they’re able to be even closer than before, though I also think it would take Bill a while to process it.

Both of them having PTSD that presents in different ways—Bill goes into a murderous rage when he’s upset, Ryan just gets very, very calm and clinical. (I think this is on display in their duel. They’re both in survival mode but Bill is in KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL mode and Ryan just gets very cold and detached and calm.)

If they’re in a sexual relationship, how does that develop? I think they’d both have a lot to overcome in order to get there, but from another perspective I could easily see it happening as they’re already very close. But anyways, more on both of their baggage:

How is Bill about sex? Did he get any sex education or generally any exposure to sex that wasn’t witnessing a gang rape/triple murder at the age of (estimated, circa) 5? I figure that had to leave some trauma about sex even if he’s had more positive experiences since, and if he hasn’t, ohohoho boy. In this case, what bothers him most? Is he more scared of other people or his own sexuality? I think he potentially has a lot of “what if I’m a bad person for having these Completely Normal Feelings” (and/or Other People Cannot be Trusted) anxiety and Ryan should, er, help with that. Exposure therapy! Sex should not be bad or painful or forced! And can be quite fun, in a normal, non-intimidating way! Really! 

But also how is Ryan about sex? The fic Rebuilding by Mcicioni (cornerstone & holy grail of Bill/Ryan fanfiction) features him struggling with his trying to see Bill as the son he never had kind of as a way of denying there might be other feelings he’s Definitely Not Thinking About, having to let go of that to recognize a different attraction for him, and also recovering from prison rape and rediscovering good sex. Also I think the implication in Mcicioni’s fic is that he hadn’t considered relationships with men before prison, which is fun. I tend to headcanon him as already knowing he was attracted (exclusively or not) to men from pretty early on and maybe having some casual sex with others in the gang (blowjobs for the homies! It’s good for morale!) But I’m unsure how I feel about these headcanons. Generally, curious what you’d come up with for both of them. 

While we’re talking about sex, I think potentially Bill is very kinky and very repressed about it and/or hasn’t explored it yet. Or the classically funny “oh everyone doesn’t think pain is also kind of sexy? Oh.” One scenario that lives rent free in my brain is that Bill gets horny from violence and is really hung up about it and it sends him on a guilt spiral every time he gets an adrenaline boner from surviving a shootout. Perhaps someone could help him with this!

Hurt/comfort on an injured Bill, in which Bill tries to derail first aid attempts into something sexy (how successful he is depends on whether Ryan’s response is more “sure, why not, maybe it’ll help” or more “oh boy you’re probably going to regret this when you’re not high on adrenaline and blood loss, hm, ask me later”. …and also how conscious Bill is.)

Bonus prompts featuring optional, untagged characters 

Bill and Martita (maybe also Ryan) bonding over similar trauma. More info on Martita in general. Her life sucks and she seemed to grow close to Bill in the short time they were together. Bill/Martita isn't my favorite ship here, I personally am more inclined to see them as friends, but they are sweet and have potential for a good bit more than there was in the movie. 

One-sided Walcott/Ryan (option 2 I would accept for noncon). I just think there’s a lot of foe yay potential. They used to at least work together, were they friends once, and if so when did it sour? Were they ever something else—or, was there just uncomfortably one-sided interest even then? Or did they always just hate each other? I just think it’s kind of sexy to tie up a guy in your murder dungeon and taunt him like Walcott does. And Ryan spits on his mouth? (I doubt he was intentionally aiming for his mouth, but that’s what happened, which. Hm!) I’m just wondering what else happened between Ryan being in the murder dungeon and the bank robbery. They’ve got 15 years of hatred to talk(?) about, after all! Like look at the scene where Walcott tries to get Ryan disposed of via angry mob— 
 
God! Ryan’s silent fury! The foe yay of grabbing your enemy’s face and tilting his chin up! The Judas vibes of it all! 
I also think it's interesting that Ryan seems to take Walcott more seriously as a threat than he does Cavanaugh. With Cavanaugh, he just barges straight into his room, laughs at his little derringer, even gives the gun back to him after threatening him--and this is knowing that it was Cavanaugh who paid for his (failed) assassination. With Walcott, he takes care to sneak up behind him and keep a gun on him from the beginning. And that's still not enough! 

It would also be very fucked up in a fun way for Bill to be a helpless rape witness twice in his life. The guy can't catch a break. He is going to be so normal after this (sarcasm) (he is disassembling his enemies atom by atom)